EMS: The Composer
Tristram Cary, avant-garde exponent of all things EMS
Haiku Salut: General Knowledge
Creating a live soundtrack to a silent Buster Keaton classic has been quite the learning curve for Derbyshire’s Haiku Salut, who are also adapting to life as a duo, for a little while at least…
Eric Random: Totally Wired
Manchester post-punk innovator and electronic music adventurer Eric Random has seen a surge of interest recently in his classic material, and he’s returned with one of his best albums, the analogue synth-driven ‘Wire Me Up’
EMS: The Ambassador
Robin Wood, from teaboy to salesman to CEO
EMS: A Very British Synthesiser
In early 1969, you could count the world’s synthesiser companies on the fingers of one hand after an unfortunate fireworks accident...
Paranoid London: Clear The Decks
With just a few rickety machines, Paranoid London are taking a new broom to the DIY spirit of acid house. On their latest album, abetted by Alan Vega and Arthur Baker, they’re bringing sleaze back to dance music
Richard Norris
The Grid and Beyond The Wizards Sleeve’s Richard Norris explains how forests, psychedelia and John Waters films inspired his mind-expanding visions
The Woodentops ‘Why Why Why’
The Woodentops’ Rolo McGinty talks us through the 1985 belter and monster crossover Ibizan floorfiller ‘Why Why Why’
Bo Hansson ‘Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings’ (Silence, 1970) (Charisma, 1972)
Since the huge commercial success of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ movies, it’s been easy to forget the significance of the JRR Tolkien novel to the 1960s counterculture hippies.
Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell: Double Bass
United by their passion for dub, funk and a certain Miles Davis record, legendary bassists Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell have again combined forces for an extraordinary new project